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 1242 TREATY WITH THE OTTAWA INDIANS. JUNE 24t 1862. Franklin county, Kansas, viz: Pem·ach·Wung, chief ;· John T. Jones, William Hurr, and James Wind, councilmen, they being thereto duly authorized by said tribe, with the following A¤°¤d¤°¤*- amnunmmnr : Strike out from the first article the following proviso: “ Provided, further, That John T. Jones, now a member of the Ottawas, being an educated and experienced man withal, having given many evidences of devotion and loyalty to the Government of the United States, he is, at his request and that of the Ottawas, hereby declared to be a citizen of the United States, exempt from the restrictions hereinafter provided, concerning the purchase, alienation, or encumbrance of the Ottawa lands; and after all the selections and allotments herein provided for are made, he is hereby authorized to locate and purchase of the Secretary of the Interior any of the remaining lands of said Ottawas at one dollar and twenty-tive cents per acre; but this article shall not deprive the said Jones of any of the pecuniary benefits of this treaty as an Ottawa Indian." Attest: J. W. FORN EY, Secretoiry, By W. HICKEY, Cftiqf Oler/c. And whereas the foregoing amendment having been fully interpreted and explained to the aforesaid chief and councilmen of the Ottawa In- Ammdmm, dians, they did, on the nineteenth day of July, one thousand eight hunnssentedto. dred and sixty-two, at Washington City, in the District of Columbia, agree to and ratify the same in the words and figures following, to wit: Whereas the Senate of the United States did, on the 16th day of July, A. D. 1862, advise and consent to the ratification of the “ articles " of agreement and convention, made and concluded at Washington City on the twenty-fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, between William P. Dole, commissioner, on the part of the United States, and certain chief and councilmcn representing the Ottawa tribe of Indians, with the following AMENDMENT, VIZ! Strike out from the first article the following proviso: " Provided, further, That John T. Jones, now a member of the Ottawas, being an educated and experienced man withal, having given man evidenccs of devotion and loyalty to the Government of the United States, he is, at his request and that of the Ottawas, hereby declared to be a citizen of the United States,.exempt from the restrictions hereinafter provided, concerning the purchase, alienation, or encumbrance of the Ottawa lands; and after all the selections and allotments herein provided for are made, he is hereby authorized to locate and purchase of the Secretary of the Interior any of the remaining lands of said Ottawas at one dollar and twenty-tive cents per acre; but this article shall not deprive the said gone; of any of the pecuniary benefits of this treaty as an Ottawa Inian. We, the undersigned chief and councilmen, representing the Ottawa tribe of Indians, having heard the foregoing amendment read, and the same having been fully explained to us by our interpreter, do hereby agree to and ratify the same. PEM-ACH-WUN G, his x mark. sm:.. J. T. JONES. {sen.} WILLIAM HURR. [sent. JAMES WIND. [sean.}